M. S. Narasimhan

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Mudumbai Seshachalu Narasimhan (born 1932) is an eminent Indian mathematician. He is well known along with C S Seshadri for their work entitled "Stable and unitary vector bundles on a compact Riemann surface".

Narasimhan did his undergraduate studies at Loyola College, Madras, where he was taught by Fr Racine. Fr Racine had studied with the famous French mathematicians Elie Cartan and Jacques Hadamard, and connected his students with the latest developments in modern mathematics. Among his other students who achieved eminence we may count Minakshisundaram, K.G. Ramanathan, C.S. Seshadri, Raghavan Narasimhan, and C.P. Ramanujam.

He then went to the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, for graduate studies. He obtained his PhD from Bombay University in 1960 under the guidance of K.Chandrasekharan.

1 Curriculum vitae
2 Research Interests
3 Contributions
4 References

[edit] Curriculum vitae

[edit] Degrees and posts held

Fellow of the Royal Society, London
Head, Mathematics Group of the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (1992-99)
Honorary Fellow, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore Centre.

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[edit] Awards and felicitations

Awards:

Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize (1975)
Third World Academy Award for Mathematics (1987)
Padma Bhushan (1990)
King Faisal International Prize for Science, 2006 (jointly with Simon Donaldson, Imperial College).